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• FamilySearch ID: LX3X-MWP
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 6238510

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John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, MA.
John Prescott, Sr. was born about 1605 in England and died in Lancaster, MA in 1683. He married Mary Gawkroger (alias Platt) (1607-1718) on April 11, 1629 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. The first 5 of their children were born in England except for the fifth child Hannah who was probably born in Barbados, West Indies in 1639. Their children included: Mary (Thomas Sawyer), Martha (John Rugg), John, Jr. (Sarah), Sarah (1 Richard Wheeler, 2 Joseph Rice), Hannah (John Rugg widower of Martha), Lydia (1 Jonas Fairbanks, 2 Elias Barron, Jr.), Capt. Jonathan (1 Dorothy Heald, 2 Elizabeth Hoar, 3 Rebecca Wheeler, 4 Ruth Brown), Joseph (probable that there was no son Joseph and that his existence at all is due to a clerks error in an early history of Concord, MA), Capt. Jonas, Sr. (Mary Loker).
John and Mary were in Watertown, MA in 1640 and moved from there to the Nashaway Plantation in 1643 which was later to become Lancaster. Jonas was born here before Lancaster was incorporated so his birth was registered in Groton. There may have been two other children who died in infancy in England. Mary's alias "Platts" appears to come from English lands by that name that passed down through the Gawkroger family.
The main source of this information is William Prescott's 1870 "Prescott Memorial."

Bio Submitted by:
Bob Speckman
Salem, OR
August 2008

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His descendants are eligible to join the following lineage societies:
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John married Mary Gawkroger on 11 Apr 1629 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Mary was born before 15 Mar 1607/08; was christened on 15 Mar 1607/08 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England; died on 20 Oct 1688 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 20 Oct 1688 in Old Settlers Burial Yard, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John was baptized 01 Apr 1634 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. He was living in 1710.

Other children of John and Sarah include: Mary, John, Sarah, Joanna, Elizabeth, Martha, and Ebenezer.

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John married Elizabeth Hoar in 1672. Elizabeth was born on 26 Apr 1646 in Kittery, York County, Maine; died on 25 Sep 1697 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Rachel Haynes on 15 Nov 1710 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Deacon John Haynes and Dorothy Noyes) was born on 18 Feb 1645/46 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 23 Feb 1718/19 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 23 Feb 1718/19 in Old Settlers Burial Yard, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lydia married Jonas Fairbanks on 28 May 1658 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Jonas was born before 6 Mar 1625/26 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England; died on 10 Feb 1675/76 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 20813304

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Buried:
Vault inscription reads:

Here lye the remains of Major Jonathan Prescot ESQ A gent of virtue and merit. An accomplished physician but excelling in chyrurgery of uncommon sagacity penetration and success in his practice and so of very extensive service his life was much valued and his death very generally lamented. He married the amiable and only duaghter of the honourable Coll Peter Bulkley ESQ by who he had ten children. He was removed from ministring to mens bodies into the world of spirits October 28, 1729

AETATIS SUAE 5L

Jonathan married Rebeckah Bulkley before 1708. Rebeckah died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Moses Adams on 14 May 1680 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Moses (son of Lieut. Henry Adams, Jr. and Elizabeth Paine) was born on 26 Oct 1654 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died on 27 May 1724 in Sherborn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth married Rev. David Hall on 24 Jun 1731 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. David (son of Deacon Joseph Hall and Hannah Miller) was born on 6 Aug 1704 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; died on 8 May 1787 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; was buried after 8 May 1787 in Sutton Center Cemetery, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Benoni married Mary Winch on 14 May 1724 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Mary was born on 23 Nov 1700 in Framingham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died in 1744 in Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]